New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-04
GLIMPSES OF MANY MINDS.

GLIMPSES OF MANY MINDS.
COMMENT AND OPINION ON QUESTIONS OF
THE DAY.
The extent TO which the Interstate Commerce law
has benefited tho railroads Of the country has been
great. While the public has been permitted TO know
that railroads have been in general way benefited
the figures have been generally withheld and will
only in the reports at the end OF the year.
Probably in direction has the advantage been 80
great the cutting of of free passee The Interstate
law operated excuse for emitting of great num-
bers OF deadheads" aud some OF the leading lines
of railroad 1t Is said that the difference will amount to
from $500 OOC to 81 900, 900 An officer of
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad remarked the
other day that their former daily reports from con-
ductors would average about go passes day. Their
present reports ran from 40 10 40 passes day. One
result OF the cutting of OF free passes has teen to
diminish the OF tho palace car service Men
who ri e on tree passes almost invariably nhulge IN
palace But on being compelled to pay their fare
many OF them ride in the ordinary passenger coaches
The average citizen of New-York s accustomed to
look Long Branch. Saratoga. Newport the Cats
Kills, Bar Harbor, Narrsgansett Pier, the White
Mountains, Thousand Islands. Atlantic City and
RichGeld Springs as about the only SUN
mer resorts of real importance In
the country. when he hears OF watering
places being built IN the West 1t astonishss him.
and be is sometimes heard to inquire where the people
live that 90 such places. The fact Is that tue red
Western men have begun to build up summer resorts
tor themselves without coming East, and are even
securing for such places large patronage OF southern
people W. p. Robertson, who IA in mercantile ousi'
meas In Tennessee and brother Of Congressman koo-
ertson OF Kentucky says Ii at be has just come from
waukesba Springs Wisconsin. where he spent the
nummer There were over 5000 people as guests
nj the Springs al one time" said Mr.. Robertson. ard
every hotel and boarding -house was crowded TO its
fullest extent II is q delightful place and growing
summer resort. On the morning OF my departure at
o'clock the thermometer stood az ii degrees.
Mr.. Robertson fell into conversation about the en-
counter between Gov~rn0rs Wilson and Foraker and
expressed tho opinion that the great OF South
ern citizens we're satisfied with the esuts OF tue war;
Said he. The nus In underlying issue Of the war was
the matter of slavery doubt II there Is man In tue
South to-day who would care to see slavery revived
There never was dollar made b, working ihe
negroes. Tho money came from their increase.
Young man who had haltdoscn negroes given him
b, his father could In a short time have a hundred
negroes and be a wealthy nan. But the objection 10
IL all was the reliance that the young people put upon
tho institution to make thei- fortunes They had no
idea Of working Themselves and the difference Is
already perccptibe in their growing energy and pros
uerity As to the question OF secession, wa all look
on that as settled by the result oil the war; 0ut We
regard IL as folly for any one to deny our right 70
asscrt that We hit tor what thought right
We we're defeated, however, and that ends it."
A prosper Gus looking Baltimore man who has been
Tor q few days at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Y. j.
Meeker His iuI beard Is whitened by the frosts OF
perhaps sixty winters Mr.. Meeker has made largo
fortune In the brokerage business He was the partner
of Addison Cammack tho bear leader of Wall street.
in New Orleans teiore the war. They were engaged
IN ship brokerage On the outbreak OF hostiities Mr.
Meeker went TO Montreal, expecting the war to be
over in three or sir months. lie went into business
h..l, and nadia connect
M. oice with that OF CHARLES Osborn IN this CITY,
Hin, son has succeeded 10 this business. while Mr..
Meeker himself having married Baltimore lady, mas
se,tled down in that city. lie ia q Jerseyman by
birth.
NevYork CITY is the recognized headquarters in
this country of every description OF schemin6 for the
.causitiou OF wealth without labor. An attorney
whose place ofbns il in Adrioh Court remarked
L" Among the novel projects tor making money w'eh
have come across recently that OF specnating IN
the franchises OF interior towns and cities Tor puoho
improvements. Thus two or three men In New-iork
will make a raid on somo town 20 obtain streetcar
tranch &C. representing themselves backed by immense
capital which Is only waiting an opportunity OF In
vestment In strcetcar lines On securing FRANCHISE
from the town by such representations they VIII como
back to New-York and peddle 1t out for 5000 or
81 600 OF whatever they can get tor H. Inc result
usually 10 that the town gets sreet-car ine win
thirtypoun rail built on cross ties and Sneap ears
whole thing IL sold out In hurry and some one ee's
left while the town itself has miserable streetoa,
live on lie hands. The same process is oehg eatreu
on In reference 10 wator works. gas WORKS. eiectro'
IigntlDg systems and SIMILAR puDc improvements
There are scores of In New-York who make Nv
ing In just such shabby ener rses r. no IN ny
town. and villages OF the country TO mako closer In
tigaon as TO the character OF peoI 10 asking ior
tranchises'
Senator Daniel, of Virginia like many other south
ern men, Ia an admrer and lover OF hne horsenesn'
He going the other day to run over 70 the trouns
races nj Hartford whom he said Ii must eyentuaiy
come about TINT tho trottng will be popular be-
causc Il Ia In this gait that the horse combines utty
with speedy action. 1t is as the roadster that the
horse Ia most available TOR pleasure and practical
service In q recent article written by Judge hughes'
Of Richmond saw q theory advanced In reference 10
the devropment In the trotting gait which think
have not seen mentioned before. The thoroughbred
animal Ia to be found the great plains ana lever
stretches OF the country where MS thSI comes
10 the animal rs he IL transferred to unduaun8 couh
tries where he Ia obliged TO adapt his footing 70 rising
and falling thoroughfAres Ihat woua DC aIe IN the
development OF the running lhoroughpreds INTO inc
tyottera IL H. of course to the th1roughorcds tnat
We must 90 for the best stock tor the Developments o
trotters as we'll as runners.
Tho effects OF tho Fidelity Bank failure In Yin.
cinnati, which was coincdent with the coii"pseo VI
tho big wheat deal In Chicago, appear 10 nave ooon
rider than even the reports at the time indicated
prominent Ohio business man who IL az tue hea' "
largo manufacturing concern In tho ih'er,o, VI .."
state sad the other day that tho second day after
the failure while he was in this city, he received
dispatch from OF his busiusss associates wn'on
gives some idea OF how the failure affected business
all through Ohio His concern owed some So'oVv on
note given to New-York people which was ia,i'ns
due. The note passed through the fidenty nsuA
and was awaiting collection by the local bank wherS
he lives Tho Telegram stated that tae urn run. "S IN
been asked to anticipate the payment o. Tue nos thu
Eaetv;s pSoer could attach the funds which wouia
be received IN payment of the note By way OF ose, 20
the Fidolity's Indebtedness Tho ONO mahu,aosa,a
ADDED thrk Ohio is full OF such CAGES IL w 0
NOT surprse me II threefourths OF the banks IN h h
d,seounted the F.deys paper in some shape OF o'ner
and q good many OF them got eaugn.